Starting with Oracle Database 11gR2, JDBC clients can use OracleDriver to establish connections to a database from a java application.

Registering the JDBC drivers is no longer a prerequisite.

In the sub-section titled “ENABLE_PARALLEL_PARTITION_LOAD Flag for DATA_OPTIONS Parameter of Import”, in the sub-section titled “Utilities”, in the section titled “Database Overall”, the name of the ENABLE_PARALLEL_PARTITION_LOAD flag should be changed to TRUST_EXISTING_TABLE_PARTITIONS.

In the Oracle Database Release Notes 12c Release 2 for Microsoft Windows (part number E50718–04), the following statement is no longer true:

Database data files are not supported on Oracle ACFS on Windows.

Note the following with regard to the Oracle Database Utilities guide:

• In Chapter 20, the sub-section titled “DBVERIFY Parameters When Validating Blocks of a Single File” in the section titled “Using DBVERIFY to Validate Disk Blocks of a Single Data File”, the description for the USERID parameter must read as follows:

  Specifies your username and password. This parameter is not necessary for Oracle ASM files.

• In Chapter 3, the sub-section titled “KILL_JOB” in the section titled “Commands Available in Import’s Interactive-Command Mode”, the Description paragraph should read as follows:

  A job that is terminated using KILL_JOB cannot be restarted. All attached clients, including the one issuing the KILL_JOB command, receive a warning that the job is being terminated by the current user and are then detached. After all clients are detached, the job's process structure is immediately run down and the master table is deleted. Log files are not deleted.